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  • Towards the middle of the nineteenth century there appeared the system of Auguste Comte, which is based on a series of decreasing generality and increasing complexity of subject matter in the following order: mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, sociology.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas PIERRE SPEZIALI 1968

  • I had been trained to speak about Kant, Hegel, Auguste Comte, Marx, but not about myself.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • I had been trained to speak about Kant, Hegel, Auguste Comte, Marx, but not about myself.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • I had been trained to speak about Kant, Hegel, Auguste Comte, Marx, but not about myself.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • It was one of the original post-Enlightenment positivists - Auguste Comte, a full-bore true-believer in scientism - who proposed earth's elliptical orbit be changed to one that is circular (for the very purpose of adjusting the climate, btw).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • It was one of the original post-Enlightenment positivists - Auguste Comte, a full-bore true-believer in scientism - who proposed earth's elliptical orbit be changed to one that is circular (for the very purpose of adjusting the climate, btw).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Marx owed a debt to the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who believed that human progress was governed by laws similar to those of nature.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • Draper was best known for his view that science had always been held back by religion, after he found the idea in a book by French “positivist” thinker Auguste Comte.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Draper was best known for his view that science had always been held back by religion, after he found the idea in a book by French “positivist” thinker Auguste Comte.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • The growing critical attitude of Unitarianism coincides historically with the rise of evolutionary theory: especially Darwinism, but also wider theory such as the work of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer.

    William Stanley Jevons Mosselmans, Bert 2007

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